Silicon has a preference in IC technology because 

(a) it is an indirect semiconductor (b) it is a covalent semiconductor (c) it is an elemental semiconductor (d) of the availability of nature oxide SiO

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Silicon has a preference in IC technology because of the availability of nature oxide SiO

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